The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-01

H. Cooper, regarding counties which have
not appointed county superintendent:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, August %, 1887.
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The administration of the school affairs
In counties which have not appointed
county superintendents is vested in the
county judges of the respective counties.
Large discretionary power is lodged IN
the hands of These officers, which should
be used in such a manner as to conserve
and advance the best interests of the
schools. In community counties the APP
pointment of the trustees of each com
munity school is committed to ths
county judges, with the provision
that the persons named in the COM
munity petition shall be appointed, unless
the Judge knows some good reason for
not making such appointment. If no
persons are recommended in the petition,
it is the tight and the duty of the county
Judge, if he accept the petition, to APP
point, as early as practicable, three citi-
zens, resident within the community, to
serve as trustees. After the appointment
has been made, and the persons appointed
removed by the county Judge on petit
ton signed by majority of the patrons
of the school community for which said
trustees have been so appointed. Until
they have been so removed they
are the lawful trustees, having full
power to employ and dismiss
teachers, and perform such other duties as
are prescribed by law.
l find on full examination of all the
documents submitted in the appeal of Mr..
M. Ussery vs.. j. M. Rodriquery, county
judge of Webb county, no evidence that
said County Judge Rodriduery has in any
way transcribed the authority vested in
him by law. Very respectfully,
o. H. COOPER,
Superintendent Public Instruction.
The comptroller received yesterday
| $7,289.15, of which S., 1898 is for revenue
and So, 1922 for school purposes.
The assessment rolls of yesterday show
decrease in the following counties:
Freestone county, Sill, 841; Clay county,
$74,2S0; Eastland county, $20,796; Starr
county, $8,502, and an increase in Frank
lin county of $51,399.
The following collectors settled with the
comptroller yesterday: John Dyer,
Bosque county; d. Yokum, Archer county;
W. L. Brown, Rockwell county; M. D..
Wallace, Young county; S. a. Oliphant,
Sabine county.
Gov. Ross will return from Coryell
county to-day.
| State Treasurer Lubbock left for Pea
Ridge, Ark, yesterday.
A requisition was issued from the gov
ernor's Office yesterday for W. j. Burke,
the defaulting treasurer of Galveston
county, who surrendered himself to the
authorities in San Francisco few days
ago.
The bond of Tom P. MCGEE, collector
of the newly organized county of Hemp
hill, was approved by the comptroller yes
terday in the sum of $4,000.
The county of Cameron has made call
for $1,000 of her bonds that are held by
the school fund.
The superintendent of public instruct
ion rules that child attending a public
school may be suspended when infected
with contagious disease, when its at
tendance upon the school is likely to
spread the contagion.
From Wednesdays Daily,l
Attorney General Hogg has received an
inquiry from Hon. w. W. Moores, county
Judge of Erath county, which states that
at an election held in that county on De-
cember 8, 1886, under the old law, local
option was adopted. Can a rev election
be held at the expiration of twelve
months, the time prescribed by the old
law, or will the amendment to the local
option act, passed by the Twentieth legis-
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crate and wellsupported opinion, the
attorney general holds that the new law
governs, and that, in the case cited, where
the election was held in December last,
under the old law, new election can
not be ordered for two years
from that date, the amendment made by
the last legislature having superseded in
force and effect the old enactment. The
opinion is an important one and will be
considered with interest in more sections
of Texas than one.
The state treasurer yesterday paid out
$4,000, of which $4,000 was for support
of the penitentiaries, and the remainder
on account of the school fund.
The comptroller's deposits yesterday
amounted to only about $1,000, princi-
pally revenue.
One Travis county bridge bond of the
value of 1000 was redeemed yesterday.
George A. Scarborough, collector of
Jones county, settled with the comptroller
yesterday.
Assessment rolls received yester-
day by the comptroller show
increases in Coryell county of
$535,84O; Lamar, $776,O28; and decreases
in Guadalupe, $23,640, and Atasoosa,
$69,384.
j. G. Carr, land classifier for the Mid
land district, came in yesterday morning.
His report to date shows classification
of 1872 sections of land, of which 20 are
marked as agricultural, and 62 as grazing
lands.
The land commissioner has leased to
date, in round numbers, about four and a
half million acres of land.
Food makes blood and blood makes
beauty. Improper digestion of food nee
essarily produces bad blood, resulting in a
feeling of fullness in the stomach, acidity,
heartburn, sick-heedache and other dys-